A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

During the rainy season, this temple is almost entirely submerged, accessible only by boat.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

This former football stadium seems almost abandoned but is still in use by the next generation of Scottish sports stars.

In the depths of Glasgow Cathedral's crypt, one pillar stands out from all others.

The remains of an anti-aircraft battery from World War II look out over Glasgow.

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

These ruins have been linked to a sherbet factory that exploded, but the story may be entirely fictional.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.